The original contemporaneous statement in which the feminist plaintiffs withdrew from the class-action suit against Interior Secretary Donald Hodel challenging the Cape Cod National Seashore's anti-nudity regulation (Craft v. Hodel, 683 F. Supp. 289, D. Mass. 1988). The document lays out, in the plaintiffs' own words at the time: the co-optation of their gender-equality challenge into a First Amendment vehicle (twenty-three pages of the appeal on First Amendment argument, four on equal protection) benefiting "the commercial exploiters of sex... topless bars... pornographers" rather than women as a class; the arrested women's loss of control of their own case under Naturist Society funding, documented in the Kyff–Baxandall transcript ("It's controlled by The Naturist Society... the main plaintiffs... have been inactive in terms of controlling it"); the American Sunbathing Association's $15,000 amicus brief supporting Douglas Oakes's Supreme Court challenge to his conviction for photographing his fourteen-year-old stepdaughter (Massachusetts v. Oakes, 491 U.S. 576), filed at the request of the American Civil Liberties Union with attorney Lawrence Stanley advising its authorship; and Lee Baxandall's written reasons for firing Nikki Craft from The Naturist Society in August 1988 — that she was a "radical feminist" who "colluded with Michelle Handler" and vigorously opposed the amicus brief. This statement is cited in the footnotes of Brian Hoffman's Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism (New York University Press, 2015) and is the anchor document of the Cape Cod historical record. Its substance was erased from Wikipedia's account of Craft for two decades. Companion documents in this collection: "The Cape Cod Withdrawal" and "The Cape Cod Split and the Naturist-Pedophile Alliance: A Documentary Resource." Also archived at nudisthallofshame.info/Shirtfree3.html.

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